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Synthesis problems for linkages in kinematics often yield large structured parameterized polynomial systems which generically have far fewer solutions than traditional upper bounds would suggest. This paper describes statistical models for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Jonathan D. Hauenstein , Samantha N. Sherman

We consider the problem of estimating the trace of a matrix function $f(A)$. In certain situations, in particular if $f(A)$ cannot be well approximated by a low-rank matrix, combining probing methods based on graph colorings with stochastic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-16 Andreas Frommer , Michele Rinelli , Marcel Schweitzer

We consider sparse polynomials in $N$ variables over a finite field, and ask whether they vanish on a set $S^N$, where $S$ is a set of nonzero elements of the field. We see that if for a polynomial $f$, there is $\mathbf{c}\in S^N$ with $f…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2024-06-12 Erhard Aichinger , Simon Grünbacher , Paul Hametner

Many computer vision applications require robust and efficient estimation of camera geometry from a minimal number of input data measurements, i.e., solving minimal problems in a RANSAC framework. Minimal problems are usually formulated as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Snehal Bhayani , Janne Heikkilä , Zuzana Kukelova

We consider the problem of testing whether an unknown low-degree polynomial $p$ over $\mathbb{R}^n$ is sparse versus far from sparse, given access to noisy evaluations of the polynomial $p$ at \emph{randomly chosen points}. This is a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Yiqiao Bao , Anindya De , Shivam Nadimpalli , Rocco A. Servedio , Nathan White

We introduce the concept of negative coefficients in various number-based systems, with a focus on decimal and binary systems. We demonstrate that every binary number can be transformed into a sparse form, significantly enhancing…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Meijun Zhu

We design a homotopy continuation algorithm, that is based on numerically tracking Viro's patchworking method, for finding real zeros of sparse polynomial systems. The algorithm is targeted for polynomial systems with coefficients…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-15 Alperen A. Ergür , Timo de Wolff

One of the biggest open problems in computational algebra is the design of efficient algorithms for Gr{\"o}bner basis computations that take into account the sparsity of the input polynomials. We can perform such computations in the case of…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Matías Bender , Jean-Charles Faugère , Elias Tsigaridas

Enumerative Geometry is concerned with the number of solutions to a structured system of polynomial equations, when the structure comes from geometry. Enumerative real algebraic geometry studies real solutions to such systems, particularly…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Frank Sottile

In an earlier article [3], we presented an algorithm that can be used to rigorously check whether a specific cosine or sine polynomial is nonnegative in a given interval or not. The algorithm proves to be an indispensable tool in…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-07-06 Man Kam Kwong

The main goal of this article is to provide a proof of the Pederson-Roy-Szpirglas theorem about counting common real zeros of real polynomial equations by using basic results from Linear algebra and Commutative algebra. The main tools are…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2020-09-08 Dilip P. Patil , Jugal Verma

Matrices and more generally multidimensional arrays, form the backbone of computational studies. In this paper we demonstrate increases in computational efficiency by performing partial-tracing/tensor-contractions on sparse-arrays. It was…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Julio Candanedo

In this survey, we give an overview of advances in the theory and computation of sparse resultants. First, we examine the construction and proof of the Canny-Emiris formula, which gives a rational determinantal formula. Second, we discuss…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Carles Checa , Ioannis Z. Emiris , Christos Konaxis

Consider a sparse polynomial in several variables given explicitly as a sum of non-zero terms with coefficients in an effective field. In this paper, we present several algorithms for factoring such polynomials and related tasks (such as…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Alexander Demin , Joris van der Hoeven

A polynomial matrix inequality is a formula asserting that a polynomial matrix is positive semidefinite. Polynomial matrix optimization concerns minimizing the smallest eigenvalue of a symmetric polynomial matrix subject to a tuple of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Jared Miller , Jie Wang , Feng Guo

We give a new probabilistic algorithm for interpolating a "sparse" polynomial f given by a straight-line program. Our algorithm constructs an approximation f* of f, such that their difference probably has at most half the number of terms of…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2014-01-24 Andrew Arnold , Mark Giesbrecht , Daniel S. Roche

We give new positive and negative results (some conditional) on speeding up computational algebraic geometry over the reals: (1) A new and sharper upper bound on the number of connected components of a semialgebraic set. Our bound is novel…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 J. Maurice Rojas

For several computational procedures such as finding radicals and Noether normalizations, it is important to choose as sparse as possible a system of parameters in a polynomial ideal or modulo a polynomial ideal. We describe new strategies…

alg-geom · Mathematics 2008-02-03 David Eisenbud , Bernd Sturmfels

Zeros of many ensembles of polynomials with random coefficients are asymptotically equidistributed near the unit circumference. We give quantitative estimates for such equidistribution in terms of the expected discrepancy and expected…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-07-28 Igor E. Pritsker , Aaron M. Yeager

We give a strongly polynomial time algorithm which determines whether or not a bivariate polynomial is real stable. As a corollary, this implies an algorithm for testing whether a given linear transformation on univariate polynomials…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-04 Prasad Raghavendra , Nick Ryder , Nikhil Srivastava